All I Know is What’s on the Internet review: The shocks don’t work

How has our visual culture adapted to the digital age? All too well, according to this show at The Photographers' Gallery, London. Is the internet losing its ability to surprise?

Operators are glimpsed by their own Google Street View cameras in art by Emilio Vavarella

By Lydia Nicholas

These days it can feel as if half of the news cycle is fake news, half is concerned with the fake news, and a third half bemoans the impact of this cruel and unusual media circus on our mental health, democracy and culture. None of it makes sense. We are repeatedly told that we are addicted to likes, manipulated by media platforms which know us better than we know ourselves, while images whipped up by uncanny new AI or old-fashioned fraudsters try …